Senior Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Theology, University of the Free State
Calvin D. Ullrich is currently senior lecturer in interdisciplinary theology in the Department of Historical and Constructive Theology at the Faculty of Theology and Religion of the University of the Free State, South Africa. He received his PhD in systematic theology from the University of Stellenbosch, with a concentration on political theology and continental philosophy of religion. He was formerly a research fellow at the Ecumenical Institute of the Ruhr-Universität, Bochum Germany, and is currently the principal researcher in a German Research Foundation funded project, investigating phenomenologies of embodiment, affect theory and systematic theology. Alongside the fields of political theology, public theology, embodiment and continental philosophy of religion, he also maintains interests in secular, post-secular studies, radical democratic theory and psychoanalysis.
What is a secular state? How South Africa has tried to separate religion and politics
May 27, 2024 06:54 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
The shifting relationship between state and religion has historically been a contested space, and the focus of much scholarship. It is important for observers to understand this unstable boundary, so that neither political...
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